[ She doesn't have to ask; the pieces are big, and easy to put together, and even if they weren't, there's the way his mouth turns on was, and the aches that follow are familiar. The other names she thinks she recognizes, in passing; people she saw around on the Network, but if they talked, it wasn't much. There isn't anything she can say about them, especially knowing they're gone — and asking him to open up about them seems cruel, when curiosity is so idle.
Her eye closes, and her free hand falls to Mako's little shoulders; her fingernails scruff against fur and collar. ]
It was like that for me, too. I had a dog, and a couple cats, and a space mouse, and... no, maybe that was it. [ They didn't keep the fucking alligators. ] ... When you're the one that's always left, you tend to get what everyone else leaves behind.
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[ She doesn't have to ask; the pieces are big, and easy to put together, and even if they weren't, there's the way his mouth turns on was, and the aches that follow are familiar. The other names she thinks she recognizes, in passing; people she saw around on the Network, but if they talked, it wasn't much. There isn't anything she can say about them, especially knowing they're gone — and asking him to open up about them seems cruel, when curiosity is so idle.
Her eye closes, and her free hand falls to Mako's little shoulders; her fingernails scruff against fur and collar. ]
It was like that for me, too. I had a dog, and a couple cats, and a space mouse, and... no, maybe that was it. [ They didn't keep the fucking alligators. ] ... When you're the one that's always left, you tend to get what everyone else leaves behind.